PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Stanley Milgram, Asthma, Ernest Hilgard

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Colin Mac Leod

Document Summary

Hypnotists merely engage people"s ability to focus on certain images or behaviours. After a brief hypnotic induction, a hypnotist suggests a series of experiences from easy to hard. Researchers refer to hypnotic susceptibility as hypnotic ability to focus attention totally on a task, to become imaginatively absorbed in it, to entertain fanciful possibilities. Virtually anyone will experience hypnotic responsiveness if led to expect it. Without either person being aware of what is going on a hypnotist hints did you hear that noise can plant ideas that become the subjects pseudomemory. Thus australian and british courts generally ban testimony from witnesses who have been hypnotized. Another example are memories created under hypnosis from people who have reported to be abducted by ufos, most are predisposed to believe in aliens, are highly hypnotizeable and have undergone hypnosis. Can hypnosis force people to act against their will: researchers have induced hypnotized people to perform dangerous acts